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crusader@lut.fi (Mikko Hy|kki) writes:

>In article <1992Oct15.100606.11418@waikato.ac.nz> matt@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>  Nazi occupation.  Interestingly, the swastikas don't seem to bother them,
>  but they say if kits with swastikas were sold in Europe someone would break
                                                    ^^^^^^
Europe. Tsk tsk. I believe the only country that has forbidden swastikas is
Germany (and perhaps also Austria). The result is counter-productive, BTW.
It only means that neonazis tend to adore (?) it more, and inventing lots
of variations of it. You can't perform thought-control by banning symbols.

>Well, kits with swastikas are sold in Finland and I haven't heard of anyone
>trashing kit stores because of it.

Finland and swastikas -- this reminds me: didn't Finland use swastikas
(dark blue, on a white circular background) as national insignia until after
WW II?
I remember, many years ago, when I was puzzled to see an American airplane
(A Curtiss?) with swastikas, in a catalog.

I guess Finland stopped using this because of the nazis?
How did the swastika come into use in Finland as a national symbol?

(I wonder whether Finnish insignia on, say, a Fokker D. XXI are also banned
in Germany.)
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